Shandypants
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How many have had it? I've read the AZ vaccine drops away after 3 or 4 months and my 2nd jab was in June, if the booster jab programme doesn't speed up it may create a big issue through the winter!
Booster Jab
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poolseasider
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Booster Jan. 
TSSeasider
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I'm not old enough (just) and I'm also not anyone with any underlying health conditions (other than being a bit fat) so I've not had it. If I was offered it, I'd jump at the chance.
I thought that both AZ and Pfizer seem to level out at 70% reduction in catching it and far greater impact on terms of being really ill, but I could be wrong.
What I read the other day is that the vaccines don't work in the same way as the immune system, which is why it appears someone who has had Covid has a much stronger immune response second time around; something to with B Cells.
That makes sense, hence the compromise around 12 year olds having it. Desperately unlucky to be really poorly with it, and long term better to have had it v protecting the rest of the population.
Always tricky getting the balance right.
Mexboroseasider
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I was told you had to wait six months after your second jab before getting the booster.
Matesrates
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Had mine, feel totally boosted.
bleach51
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Still waiting to hear....am probably now due it( 2nd one was April 28).Also received a text message from my surgery on August 18 saying they have reserved a flu jab for me and would be in touch.Not heard anything since.
However I am more than happy for the more vulnerable to be prioritised as was our relation ( in her early 50’s) who had her booster on Friday as she had an Operation around 3 years ago to have a cancerous growth removed from her pancreas which also meant losing much if not all of her spleen leaving her immune system severely weakened.
My turn will no doubt come soon and unlike others who choose not to be vaccinated I will happily have both.
However I am more than happy for the more vulnerable to be prioritised as was our relation ( in her early 50’s) who had her booster on Friday as she had an Operation around 3 years ago to have a cancerous growth removed from her pancreas which also meant losing much if not all of her spleen leaving her immune system severely weakened.
My turn will no doubt come soon and unlike others who choose not to be vaccinated I will happily have both.
ansdellmafia
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I've had 3 armfuls .
Shandypants
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It was very early in the morningBooster Jan.
tangerine.com
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Waiting for my turn
poolseasider
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Dad's had it Mum still waiting.
Me and the wife ain't having it let someone else use the vaccine.
How long does this booster last or is this the new norm a jab every 6 months?
Me and the wife ain't having it let someone else use the vaccine.
How long does this booster last or is this the new norm a jab every 6 months?
Whitstabletangerine
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Had mine last Monday.
Mex is correct it has to be six months after the second vacination.
Mex is correct it has to be six months after the second vacination.
Why is that? I know a few who are having the two jabs close together or within a week. The NHS seems happy with that.
poolseasider
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The elderly couple I go shopping for had both their's done at the same time.
Shandypants
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It's fine to have the flu and covid jab on the same day. I know numerous people who've had that done.
tangerine_neil
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The vaccine antibodies are meant to last for up to 6 months before effectiveness starts to reduce. I did read that they think the AZ is offering better long term protection than the alternatives, and is exceeding expectations.
Personally wouldn’t have the booster jab and flu jab at same time. Imo
Personally wouldn’t have the booster jab and flu jab at same time. Imo
Tangerinemoss
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FiL had one in each arm at the same time!
Lytham_fy8
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Supposed to have it soon as NHS.
There's no issue with having this and your flu jab at the same time as far as I'm aware.
There's no issue with having this and your flu jab at the same time as far as I'm aware.
Wizaard
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That's not what someone on Facebook said...
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1. It’s times for 6 months after your 2nd
2. We don’t know if we will need regular boosters as they’re still learning about how antibodies wane over time
3. The nhs are happy to give both flu and Covid booster on the same day (this has changed from the earlier jabs when they used to ensure there was several weeks between flu and Covid jabs. I know this cos I worked on the Covid booking and there was a question to check whether the person had recently had a flu jab (within the last 2 weeks).
4. The boss of AZ has said he didn’t think there was any need for a booster. This may well be why the booster WILL NOT be AZ. It’s one of the others ie Pfizer or Moderna.
5. The protection only slightly drops over time, and beyond 6 months, but the government are taking no chances. Even a few % drop off means many more patients admitted which could be the straw to break the camel’s back this winter.
6. You can go online to manage your booster booking. The website advise you to wait until you are contacted by the nhs to book it.
2. We don’t know if we will need regular boosters as they’re still learning about how antibodies wane over time
3. The nhs are happy to give both flu and Covid booster on the same day (this has changed from the earlier jabs when they used to ensure there was several weeks between flu and Covid jabs. I know this cos I worked on the Covid booking and there was a question to check whether the person had recently had a flu jab (within the last 2 weeks).
4. The boss of AZ has said he didn’t think there was any need for a booster. This may well be why the booster WILL NOT be AZ. It’s one of the others ie Pfizer or Moderna.
5. The protection only slightly drops over time, and beyond 6 months, but the government are taking no chances. Even a few % drop off means many more patients admitted which could be the straw to break the camel’s back this winter.
6. You can go online to manage your booster booking. The website advise you to wait until you are contacted by the nhs to book it.
Shandypants
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Everyone I know who had AZ has had pfizer as a booster
Sorry, no there isn't any issue with having at same time. But as my covid booster jab isn't due until December I have already had my flu jab to get earlier protection
southshore
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Had mine last week, Third time its been Pfizer.
TimperleyTangerine
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When you get the opportunity, have the booster.
There is no doubt the vaccine’s effectiveness reduces, I can personally vouch for that. I had Covid a couple of weeks back, but my wife and son, both jabbed later than me, did not get it. My elderly parents who were 2nd jabbed in January 2021 got it also, on the day they were due to have their booster.
Don’t mess around, protect yourself and others!
There is no doubt the vaccine’s effectiveness reduces, I can personally vouch for that. I had Covid a couple of weeks back, but my wife and son, both jabbed later than me, did not get it. My elderly parents who were 2nd jabbed in January 2021 got it also, on the day they were due to have their booster.
Don’t mess around, protect yourself and others!
A booster jab every 3 months then for a virus with a 99.7 % survival rate. Makes perfect sense.
Lytham_fy8
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Flu has an even higher survival rate, I didn't notice anyone whinging about that vaccination.A booster jab every 3 months then for a virus with a 99.7 % survival rate. Makes perfect sense.
Simply staggering how many people are readily taking the booster after already having 2 injections of a concoction that is still in clinical trials. I use the word concoction because that is exactly what it is. It is no vaccine, for a vaccine provides immunity, whereas this allegedly helps to reduce the effects of Covid that is all. However, to the vast majority of people who do go on to contract it, then it is a relatively mild illness that the immune system is perfectly capable of dealing with. Those who have indulged in years of self abuse, with excessive alcohol consumption, smoking, and avariciously over-eating to the point where they have become morbidly obese will unfortunately find symptoms more pronounced, as those with other underlying health conditions will do too.
Those taking the injections will probably go on to find that their natural immune systems will be around 40% lower than before they were injected, needlessly putting themselves at risk of other diseases.
The majority of people in hospital with Covid have been " vaccinated " .
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Lala
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F*ck offThat’s weird. Cos I got the impression you were quite elderly.
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Lost Seasider
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A booster jab every 3 months then for a virus with a 99.7 % survival rate. Makes perfect sense.
Source for that claim?
Insider
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I had flu in left arm, covid in right which is how it's being done in Bury.
For specific reasons Mrs Insider had them both in the same arm at the same time.
Insider
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Just so doubters like yourself don't put yourself at risk I went on a clinical trial (nearly 12 months ago now) and with a vaccine which still hasn't been approved and I'm still alive.
You mean someone who isn't going to be a guinea pig and have an injection that my body doesn't need ? You will be telling me that the face masks work next too! The government have successfully brainwashed, through a campaign of fear, a significant number of the population. The vaccinated will begin to lose their natural immunity to disease over the next 12-18 months by upto 40%, and hence the cull begins with inevitable deaths that follow being put down to natural causes. Anyone who thinks that this is about looking after your health are deluded. The flu killed around 28k people in 2018. NO mask mandates were in force, no social distancing measures, no lockdown, and no forced vaccinations. How strange then that the government chose not to protect all those vulnerable elderly back in 2018 then and equally strange that those who are now insisting that people get jabbed and wear masks indoors etc, had NO interest in the wellbeing of the vulnerable back in 2018 who were just at risk from death from Influenza as they are today from Covid19. So many hypocrites, so many sheep, so many brainwashed.
Insider
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Thank you David Icke.
Lytham_fy8
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For the 6338484 time, it's to protect the NHS, flu nearly cripples it every year and a Covid surge this winter would, would you like to be turned away from A & E in an emergency? Covid has killed around five times more people than flu in the past twelve months.
Why do you think virtually every government in the world enforced lockdowns and the economic misery that follows? For kicks?
The Covid vaccine isn't mandatory or 'forced', just as the flu vaccine isn't, they both bloody should be though.
Killingmesoftly
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I’ve had my first 2 vaccine jabs, but i’ve recently had COVID which meant I tested positive for about 10 days, and for about 4-5 days felt dodgy main issue was an absolute banging head which paracetamol didn’t even touch, but seemed to last for days,…! Apart from that not really any other issues apart from being lethargic, so I do I need booster or not?
LaLa that's telling him.F*ck off
. You are as young as you feel
Wizaard
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Squidgame
Three posts ever and all on this thread. It's almost like it's a bot generated response.
Where's 20s asking why he never posts about football?
Couple of things
‘it’s to protect the NHS’ - well, so we’re told but if they really meant that they’d do a bit more to prevent the 78k deaths EVERY YEAR just from smoking. Many other causes of death which we could do more about to ‘protect’ them.
Anyhow, isn’t it the NHS’ job to protect the public, not the other way around? If they were truly in danger of being overwhelmed at ANY stage in this shit-show why have the nightingale hospitals not been used/closed? That was the whole purpose of them....to prevent the NHS from being overwhelmed.....at a cost to the tax payer of a half billion pounds (to date).
‘Covid has killed around 5 times more people than flu in the past 12 months’ - are we counting people who have flu/influenza within 28 days OF ANY death? Because only that way could we compare like for like figures.
TSSeasider
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I think you'll find the NHS are working quite hard to stop the 78k smoking related deaths.Couple of things
‘it’s to protect the NHS’ - well, so we’re told but if they really meant that they’d do a bit more to prevent the 78k deaths EVERY YEAR just from smoking. Many other causes of death which we could do more about to ‘protect’ them.
Anyhow, isn’t it the NHS’ job to protect the public, not the other way around? If they were truly in danger of being overwhelmed at ANY stage in this shit-show why have the nightingale hospitals not been used/closed? That was the whole purpose of them....to prevent the NHS from being overwhelmed.....at a cost to the tax payer of a half billion pounds (to date).
‘Covid has killed around 5 times more people than flu in the past 12 months’ - are we counting people who have flu/influenza within 28 days OF ANY death? Because only that way could we compare like for like figures.
Perhaps the taxation on them, the public health messages saying don't smoke or it will kill you, the putting nasty pictures on the packets, hiding them from plain sight and refusing to sell them to U 18's before we get to those being treated in their home, in the hospital and for many in the hospice movement isn't doing something?
Other than banning tobacco (which is probably not going to happen for cultural reasons) I'm not sure what else they could do?
Like I said,the brainwashed insist it is for their health. Thousands of deaths as a direct result of being jabbed, thousands more with serious side effects. Medical apartheid, morons driving cars alone down the road but wearing a muzzle, locking people down for months, banning people from seeing relatives etc etc but still the sheeple accept it. G7 summit earlier this year showed all those leaders quaffing champagne together without a mask insight except when the photo shoot for the media took place, and guess what, the Queens was stood right in their midst drinking too. The same 90 something woman who only weeks earlier sat alone and away from her children in Westminster Abbey at her husbands funeral, wearing a mask. She was happy to mix with Trudeau, Johnson, Merkel, Biden , Macron and all the others who flew into the UK and did not quarantine. The head of the commonwealth in a supposedly extremely vulnerable age group standing amongst foreign leaders . What a charade and again the moronic sheep queue to be injected. Truly gullible and somewhat cowardly.
Lytham_fy8
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You're over reaching, when Covid hit last year and there was no capacity in the system (capacity bad remember!) we should have just blamed the smokers and not changed anything? How about the over eaters? The heavy drinkers? Those who drove a bit too fast and crashed? Those who got injured playing sport? Where do you want to draw the line? Ban everything that could be remotely harmful to health? We've already got the personal freedom brigade up in arms for heavily suggesting that a vaccine is probably a very good idea, imagine if we took away alcohol, or driving, or sport or their Big Macs.Couple of things
‘it’s to protect the NHS’ - well, so we’re told but if they really meant that they’d do a bit more to prevent the 78k deaths EVERY YEAR just from smoking. Many other causes of death which we could do more about to ‘protect’ them.
Anyhow, isn’t it the NHS’ job to protect the public, not the other way around? If they were truly in danger of being overwhelmed at ANY stage in this shit-show why have the nightingale hospitals not been used/closed? That was the whole purpose of them....to prevent the NHS from being overwhelmed.....at a cost to the tax payer of a half billion pounds (to date).
‘Covid has killed around 5 times more people than flu in the past 12 months’ - are we counting people who have flu/influenza within 28 days OF ANY death? Because only that way could we compare like for like figures.
You do realise that if we got the entire country to live like saints and the health of the nation was top notch the services would be reduced? Imagine billions of voters taxes being spent on empty hospitals just in case there was a pandemic, you think that's a vote winner in this country? The same country that votes for the lower taxation party in virtually every single election? There's no capacity anywhere, if there is it's then reduced almost overnight as it's seen as uneconomical, welcome to capitalism, make sure you get your hand stamped on the way out for a fag.
Public healthcare + private ideology + pandemic = lockdown. So your choice is now a) hope the virus magically disappears b) have lockdown after lockdown c) forget the lockdown and let thousands die on trollies in corridors or d) get vaccinated. Choice is yours!
Why did you capitalise 'ANY' after 'truly'? Are you doubting that the service was creaking even before this pandemic? Try ringing for an ambulance for a broken leg or anything not immediately life threatening, do you want to take a guess on the waiting time? How do you think a winter of Covid and Flu is going to effect that? Have you been to an Urgent Care in the past 18 months?
Oh and yes, the flu deaths are recorded in exactly the same way as Covid deaths (although it varies from coroner to coroner but generally evens out), why wouldn't they be?
I will just leave this here and let my immune system look after me. The cowardly, weak minded, snivelling imbeciles can join the queue to be " double jabbed" then boosted every few months with a drug that will slowly kill them.
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Matesrates
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Me too